Back in May 2016 Trump revealed a dangerous ignorance. This was a giant red flag.

[mobeau69]

"Trump not only revealed a dangerous ignorance about the operation of the national monetary system and the global economic order, but also offered a brilliant case study in the profound risks of attempting to apply the logic of a private business enterprise to the task of running the United States of America."

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/06/donald-trump-on-us-debt.html

I listened to this live and was shocked at his stupidity. Becky Quick was shocked. I thought to myself "There is no way this moron could ever be elected president". As is always the case, he tried to walk it back in the coming days.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Perhaps you mean "following days".

The "coming days" are the rest of March 2018. I don't think you mean that.

[mobeau69]

2. Either would be correct.

http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/following?s=t

[dchill]

3. +1000 for playing the thesaurus card!

[PatSeg]

5. The "coming days" sounds better

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. No. Thesaurus words may be loose equivalents but OFTEN are NOT applicable to cases.

The thesaurus says that "on the scent" is a possible substitute for "following". Using your logic you would write "on the scent days" instead of "following days". Nonsense.

"Coming days" means days that have not happened, days that are yet to come. It is future only.

"Following days" means days that follow after a particular date or event. It may be either past or future but is most often applied to the past.

[mobeau69]

9. No?

"Coming days" means days that have not happened, days that are yet to come. It is future only.

The days had not happened yet. They were in the future at that point in time.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. No. You wrote past tense "tried", not "will try". Past, not the future.

Verb tenses must agree with linked phrases. Yours did not. That is how you created cognitive dissonance in the readers.

[keithbvadu2]

4. A whole lot of American debt is owned by,,, Americans... Confidence?

[FakeNoose]

6. He's perhaps the stupidest person who ever held a degree from Wharton School

Really!? Trump actually earned a degree in Economics from the Wharton School of Business?!
That degree should recalled because he obviously learned nothing.
Or he's forgotten everything.

[Wounded Bear]

8. I think that "earned" is kind of a strong term to use...

with regard to his degree.